Lutz gymnast Zachary Myers posted a high score of 82.6 to win first place at the 2018 Region 8 Future Stars and Technical Sequence Evaluation (11-year-old boys division), held Oct. 13 at Evo’s Gymnastics in Sarasota.
Myers, also a multiple-time state champion, now advances to the Future Stars National Championships at the USA Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Nov. 8 through Nov. 11.
Myers, who trains at LaFleur’s Gymnastic Club in Tampa, is one of just five Region 8 athletes from the 11-year-old boys division to qualify for nationals. He is a fifth-grader at McKitrick Elementary School in Lutz.
